New Tom Payne interview

And yet it looks much more badass than emo Shadow with a gun.

Because we never tried applying the underwater palette to it. When you go underwater, the red becomes purplish.

 

Oh gawd yes singing Sonic.

=O

 

What the hell, ICEknight XD

 

DAGGON. So much new things....

I see badnicks and gun toting Sonic.

AMAZING!

 

This is so unbelievable and cool! I feel like this is the closest to the center of Sonic 2's conceptualization and development we'll ever get to. This Tom is super awesome for sharing this with everyone.

To elaborate, different synonym, same meaning. "Hidden" sounds more enigmatic than "Secret", IMO.

 

aaah!
This is nothing short of amazing
I feel like we should give something back to this guy.

 

That rhombus is the coolest thing, they had some pretty clever traps going for it. Also, I really love those frogs.


EXPLODING CACTUS

 

This is amazing!
I think I have a lot of work to do now...

 

Dear god, 3D art from Shadow and '06 AND tons of new old Sonic 2 concept art? In the same day? What's next, media for Project Needlemouse?



*waits for it*

Loving those sprites. Are they printed or did he draw them "pixel by pixel" on paper?

Also, first Sludgehog fanart (that I know of):

 

That grid paper map layout of "Metropolis Act 3 - A" is the exact layout (minus the moving platform with spikes on it's underside and two steam springs in the same area) to the Metropolis Act 3 in Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta. The paper grid layout doesn't however show the entire level from Simon's beta - there is actually another section that comes after it, and once you get to that point, you start coming across objects which aren't shown anywhere else in the paper grid layout or in fact in the rest of the level in the Beta (Example 1, 2, and 3. Correct me if I'm wrong though). So it appears that everything in the level beyond where the paper grid ends is completely new content for this Act - both in terms of objects and layout.

I remember someone mentioning how it wasn't uncommon for SEGA to recycle old carts that had data in them already. So it's probably a bit of leftover data from whatever game was previously on the cart.

All the information we've been provided with so far is absolutely amazing. I can't thank Tom enough.

 

I been reading this thread for a while but forgot to reply, this stuff is quite amazing and an awesome insight into how badniks were worked up.

 

Sorry to burst your bubble here, but these are really just katakana transliterations of the English words. ("jenosaido" and "saibaa" if I'm not mistaken) I'm pretty sure it's a coincidence that both words happen to use the "sa" and "I" characters, because I don't see any plausible scenario where the two would have been confused. If we were talking about kanji, on the other hand...

 

Well Japanese people are known to make mistakes when they work with English words. Think about Sonic Stadium/Studium. I'm not saying that he is right, but maybe they did think about Genocyber City at a certain point.

 

This is ridiculous. Yes, ?????? [jenosaido] and ???? [saibaa] share two common characters, ? and ? ("sa" and "I"), but that's like saying "Genocide" is a misspelling of "Cyber" because both words have "e"s. It is entirely more likely that they misunderstood what "genocide" meant.

This is all pretty awesome stuff. Personally I hope we get a hold of the contents of the digitzer disks. I tried replicating the ball sprites from the posted scan, but the quality is far too low to make out the different dark hues. At least the color palette is all layed out in hexadecimal!

 

Well, Tom said that it was most likely that the Japanese team wanted to make a word that would sound dangerous and ended up with something that ended up sounding too dangerous XD

 

All thsi stuff is really interesting. I'd love to see such things for the very first Sonic.

Also, Desert zone and its exploding cactus sounds (or sounded) really cool!

 

Newest batch:

Sonic the Hedgehog Guide - 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33
Metropolis Map (Act Unknown)
Bubbler Concept Art

 

I... wow..